Have you ever had one of those days where it felt like there was absolutely nothing you could do to get your engine moving? That was me today. Oh, sure, I did complete a couple of menial tasks. I did a couple of loads of laundry, and I made a pot of chili, but that was about it. The rest of the day was spent catching up on Daredevil on Disney+ and rotting my brain on YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. I feel like today I made great strides toward firmly imprinting my ass cheeks into the recliner in my living room.  I would say that today rated a solid 3 on the Industriousness Scale . You may be asking what the industriousness scale is? Well, I’m here to tell you that, for the context of this blog, and in my personal life, it is an arbitrary scale that I made up to measure how productive I was during the day. You could do an internet search for the term and find out that my naming is not original. In fact, it is a part of a personality test that measures your “tendency towards hard wo...

Every month I come up with a list of six habits that I want to make routine for myself. For the most part, for the past 6 months or so, 5 of them have remained unchanged because I think that these are core to what will make me a better person. Those habits are meditation, gratitude journaling, exercise, reading, and drinking 100 oz of water. These are the habits that I know will serve me in the long run. Do I complete each of them every day? No, that would be exhausting. And then the sixth I have changed from month to month based on what my needs may be. For instance, I noticed that I am leaning a little too much on sweets and desserts in the past months, so this month my sixth habit is: not sweets or desserts. This sixth habit I truly try to stick to for the entire month. And then there are my monthly goals that I set for myself. Among other things, this month I set for myself to complete two more “perfect” days than I had last month. For April, that translates to 20 of 30 days wher...

 This is the time of year when gyms fill up and liquor stores struggle for business. But everyone knows that both of these situations are only temporary, because by mid-February most people have moved on from their resolutions and back to doing whatever habits are so ingrained in them that no meaningful change is ever realized.  In fact, it is such a forgone conclusion that New Year’s Resolutions won’t last that they have made a national “holiday” out of it. National Quitting Day is typically the second Saturday in February, this year that will be February 8th.  Most people give up their New Year’s Resolutions for a couple of reasons.  1. They fail to plan. They don’t use a framework when planning their goals like a S.M.A.R.T. plan. Smart is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time bound. They say “In 2025 I am going to lose weight”, instead of “In 2025 I am going to lose 5 pounds a month by doing (inset plan here).” I have been more than g...

In the last week or so you could say that I have been… lazy doesn’t feel like the right word. I would probably say unmotivated or undisciplined. I haven’t felt like myself in the past week. It was a bit of the feeling that I didn’t get enough sleep the night before, everyday. I, rightly or wrongly, thought that I had so much to do and no time to do it in. So I did what anyone would do, nothing. I’m not entirely sure what was wrong. As a consequence I got very few workouts in last week. Instead of doing what I should have been doing (working out or exercising), I spent that time either sleeping, doom scrolling, or wasting time watching videos on YouTube. To be fair I do quite a bit of those things on the day to day, I was just doing more of them. And to add fuel to the fire (or lack of fire in this case) I was also snacking on stuff I shouldn’t have (specifically a lot of Peanut M&Ms and Snickers Bars).  Three out of seven days I made the effort to go beyond my comfort zone and ...